Recording with Roland cube

[Ikiru]

Anyone tried a Cube30x or any other cube's recording function along with garageband/mac? I need help.

My sound comes out as extremely noisy from the moment I plug in my cable to the laptop, and I can hardly hear the riffs I record other than noise and pitiful rhythm. I tried tweaking my settings and lowering gain but it's still the same.

Any clue? Should I play on clean instead? I've never recorded before...

 

[ShredCow]

Check yoru garageband - is your recording track like... an empty track?

Garageband comes with all sorts of guitar efx - so if those are one, esp the distortion patches, then you got noise.

 

[Ikiru]

shouldn't it be... empty?

my recording track is always effectless though. I don't touch the effects or even reverb/echoe until I'm done with the track's basic.

 

[lester_music]

how is connection like?

did u also create a track for real instrument.....

did you change your mic input to line in?

Did u turn off the volume of your ibook's speaker...and listen to it thru phones....also have to turn on garage band monitor....

 

[ShredCow]

I recorded with Garageband before - but I can't remember if a default guitar track has effects/settings on it.

I do remember having to create new tracks with nothing on them.

Since you're using a mac - which I did back then, and I can't remember if I had to set these things, sorry, pc guy here - do you have to like set your recording input options? Like you don't want a microphone input but a line in input.

The cube should record fine - I recorded with a microcube with no issues. I'm guessing its your computer settings.

 

[lester_music]

I suspect he did not change his input from mic to line in....you need to do that on mac.....cause most mac comes with a built-in external mic input...

If not...it should not be a problem....

pretty easy to use....

 

[Ikiru]

Easy is right, but mine won't cooperate, lol.

I always change it to line-input, add a real instrument track and turn on the monitor when ever I attempt to record and yes, I do listen through the headphones. But the noise is still there, so I suspect that it's the amp's setting or something.

Care to share some amp settings you've used to record with a cube so that I could try it out to make sure? I'm quite horrible at settings...

 

[ShredCow]

I think you'd just have to give me your cube.



Why don't you detail what you're doing? Your amp settings, your cables used, guitar, etc. Ya know, stuff to make you waste an hour or so?

Hopefully you can get recording soon!


Or really, give me the amp. Look, I'll even trade you a nice pedal!

 

[Ikiru]

No point having pedals if I have no amp, or even money for a new amp if I give you mine
okok.. seriously..

My amp settings?
I using the lead function with R-fier. Seems like the only setting that sounds distorted enough to my liking.
Gain at 5 and volume at like... 2 or 3.5 because it's LOUD. Guitar's volume at 1-2.
Equalizers at 12oclock also.
Efx, delay and reverb are off.

So I plug in my cable into the Recording output jack with an adapter and plug in the other end into my mac. I loaded garageband and first changed my input to line-in. After that I made a new empty track to record real instruments, no settings tweaked. Just a plain empty track and I turn on the monitor, input going into channel 1&2 (stereo) and then the noise starts!